This is a great place to go for a complete landscape job--everything from pavers and hardscape to horticulture and design. They seem to do everything, cleanly, honestly, and at a good price.
I just had Brian Milligan and his crew re-do my entire yard, front, back, and driveway. They installed acres of pavers, excavated and replaced many many feet of clogged-up rain drain, built 200+ feet of retaining wall, built stairs, sculpted and graded huge mounds of dirt, then planted a lot of plants, put in drip-irrigation everywhere, and finally put in 40yds of mulch over the whole thing. All in all, this took a month of actual work, interspersed with a few rain delays... but the result was a complete transformation of my property from an Oleander and weed forest to a nicely manicured clean and proper yard.
Brian himself has degrees in horticulture, so is very good with plants... not just the design aspect of what looks good, but also the on-going nurturing and cultivating aspects. Every day, he would drive up his giant trailer (which we call the barge) and dump off material for the workers--whether pavers, baserock, plants, or mulch. He normally does a few things himself, but mostly functions as a supervisor for the crew.
The crew, in my case, consisted of Paulino and his son Jonathan. The two of them basically work like tractors, moving incredible amounts of dirt and material by hand--they even removed my asphalt driveway BY HAND!! The father is definitely in charge, and the son does what he is told.... They both seem quite happy and competent.
All in all, this was a fairly pleasant experience for me. The results were good (I am very very very picky), my annoyance index was quite low, and there was no collateral damage to the house--this is in marked contrast to the first landscaper that I hired and fired after three days. I liked the fact that they did not make a big mess or use heavy machinery that could destroy water pipes or cut gas lines. They were very good with the hardscape stuff, did the pavers as well as any of the big specialized companies but at a fraction of the cost. I liked the fact that they could do everything--one company I spoke to did only pavers and no retaining walls, another did retaining walls but not drains. I also got someone who knew plants and had a sense of design.
I would hire these guys again. read more